Ellaswood flood map & planning overlays
Ellaswood is East Gippsland's top earner ($2,143) and joint youngest (38).
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A planning-constraint profile of Ellaswood
(East Gippsland, VIC) - 16.07 km², mapped from live council and
state overlay data. This suburb is highly constrained.
Profile updated 24 October 2026.
Constraint readout
16.07 km² - this suburb is highly constrained by planning overlays.
Elevation hillshade with street names, clipped to Ellaswood's boundary, with the flood, bushfire and environmental overlays drawn on top. Magenta is where aircraft were observed in the sampled period, brightest below 3,000 ft.
Nearby suburbs, nearest first
Aircraft noise and flight paths over Ellaswood
The ANEF contour is a published planning forecast and observed overflight is what a sampled tracking feed recorded - neither describes any individual property.
Observed overflight - sampled 4 Sep to 24 Oct 2026
typical observed square 1 a day
Night movements: not established - night is sampled as often as day, but too few night flights have been seen here to conclude either way.
How this is measured
Traffic is sampled rather than watched continuously, so every figure is a floor: aircraft not captured between samples are not represented. Rates are per 500 m square - the busiest square in the suburb, not a count of flights over the suburb - and a square is only rated where enough traffic was seen to measure it. Altitudes are above mean sea level. Flight paths change with runway use, weather, season and airspace design. This is a record of observed traffic; it is not a noise contour and not a planning control.
Ellaswood at a glance
How Ellaswood is zoned
Selling in Ellaswood? The zoning and planning overlays on this page are the controls a Section 32 vendor statement discloses.
Across its 16.07 km², Ellaswood is highly constrained by planning overlays. Flood mapping covers the suburb and none of it falls within a mapped flood overlay, and 100% is flagged bushfire-prone. The dominant land-use zone is Rural Living Zone (RLZ3). The median lot measures about 33,389 m² across 130 parcels.
Who lives in Ellaswood
Census 2021 figures published by the ABS for the Ellaswood suburb boundary itself, not a wider region.
Socio-economic standing
ABS SEIFA 2021 ranks every Australian suburb. Decile 1 is the most disadvantaged tenth of the country, decile 10 the least.
Score 1021, and decile 7 within Victoria. The national average is 1000.
Age profile
Share of Ellaswood's 206 residents in each ABS age band.
Population trend, 2001 to 2025
Estimated resident population of Bairnsdale, the wider ABS statistical area containing Ellaswood. There is no annual population series published at suburb level, so this describes the surrounding area rather than Ellaswood itself.
12,080 in 2001 to 15,917 in 2025, up 32%.
Source: ABS Census 2021 and SEIFA 2021 (Suburbs and Localities), Regional Population (SA2), CC BY 4.0. Small counts are randomly adjusted by the ABS.
Ellaswood data sources and coverage
“Not mapped” means we hold no source layer for this suburb - never an all-clear.
| Dataset | Coverage | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
| Flood mapping | Mapped | Vicmap Planning and Victorian Government spatial services |
| Bushfire-prone mapping | Mapped | Vicmap Planning and Victorian Government spatial services |
| Zoning | Mapped | Vicmap Planning and Victorian Government spatial services |
| Heritage and environment | Mapped where published | Vicmap Planning and Victorian Government spatial services |
| Aircraft noise contours (ANEF) | Not held | Vicmap Planning and Victorian Government spatial services, Defence |
| Observed flight paths | Observed | adsb.lol, under the Open Database License |
| Demographics | Available | Australian Bureau of Statistics (2021 Census and SEIFA) |
Profile last materially updated 24 October 2026. See the methodology and full source list. Source data changes over time and critical decisions should be checked with the responsible authority.
Check a specific Ellaswood address
See exactly which overlays touch a single property - the interactive map is free. Need it on paper? A full planning PDF is just $9.
See what's in the $9 report →Aircraft have been seen below 3,000 ft over about 2% of Ellaswood. The report's Aircraft Overflight page narrows that to the address itself: how many aircraft a day, how low, and at what heights.
Building or pricing a slab? The $119 geotechnical desktop report covers geology, soils, bores and the indicative soil reactivity range to expect for a Ellaswood lot.
Ellaswood planning - frequently asked
Is Ellaswood flood-prone?
Flood mapping covers Ellaswood and none of the suburb falls within a mapped flood overlay (the council-wide suburb average is 18%).
Is Ellaswood bushfire-prone?
Around 100% of Ellaswood is mapped as bushfire-prone, compared with a East Gippsland average of 94%.
Is Ellaswood under a flight path?
Aircraft were observed below 3,000 ft over about 2% of Ellaswood, and over about 57% at any altitude up to 10,000 ft, in the period sampled (4 Sep 2026 to 24 Oct 2026). The lowest measured aircraft was at 2,000 ft, with an average of 7,500 ft. At the busiest point in the suburb about 1 aircraft a day were recorded passing over one 500 m square. Traffic is sampled rather than watched continuously and flight paths change with runway use, weather and season; the ANEF contour is the planning instrument.
What is the zoning in Ellaswood?
The dominant planning zone in Ellaswood is Rural Living Zone (RLZ3), though the suburb also includes Farming Zone (FZ1) and Farming Zone (FZ2).
Does Ellaswood have heritage-listed places?
No heritage-listed places are on record within Ellaswood.
What is the typical lot size in Ellaswood?
Across 130 surveyed parcels in Ellaswood, the median lot size is about 33,389 m². There are also 179 registered easements mapped in the suburb.
What is the population of Ellaswood?
At the 2021 Census Ellaswood had 206 usual residents, with a median age of 38 and an average household size of 3.1 people. The wider Bairnsdale statistical area, which contains Ellaswood, went from 12,080 people in 2001 to 15,917 in 2025, up 32%.
Is Ellaswood an advantaged suburb?
On the ABS SEIFA 2021 index of relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD), Ellaswood scores 1021 and sits in decile 7 of 10 nationally and decile 7 within Victoria (decile 1 is the most disadvantaged tenth, decile 10 the least).
What is the median household income in Ellaswood?
Median household income in Ellaswood was $2,143 a week at the 2021 Census, against $1,209 for the typical suburb in East Gippsland. Median rent was $280 a week and the median mortgage repayment $1,907 a month.
Compare nearby suburbs
| Nearby suburb | Distance | Flood mapped | Bushfire-prone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wy Yung | 3.7 km | 17% | 99% |
| Calulu | 5.6 km | 10% | 100% |
| Mount Taylor | 6.3 km | Not mapped | 100% |
| Eastwood | 6.4 km | 14% | 30% |
| Melwood | 7.5 km | Not mapped | 100% |
| Bairnsdale | 8.4 km | 20% | 88% |
| Flaggy Creek | 8.6 km | Not mapped | 100% |
| Granite Rock | 8.7 km | Not mapped | 100% |
| Hillside (Bairnsdale) | 8.7 km | 17% | 100% |
| Lucknow | 9.0 km | <1% | 92% |